Lesley N. Braun from Basel University in Switzerland, visited our research center on March 23, 2022. Dr. Braun conducted research on Congolese women traders who engage in business trips between Kinshasa and Guangzhou. After the pandemic, she shifted her research location to study Congolese merchant women who reside in Dubai and in Istanbul. Dr. Braun focuses on how working women change their society in the course of their activities.